Morning journal and courier., 1887-08-30
General State News.
AGED 10.

Mrs. Paradis, q French woman, died at
North Grosvenorsdale Friday at the age of
| ITO years.
| wALLINGFoRD's BAD ROADS.
| The disgraceful condition of the Walling.
ford roads will be brought up Wednesday
evening at the special borough meeting called
to see about an appropriation for buying
stone crusher.
| NO PARsoN WOULD oFFIcIATE.
Daisy, the five year old daughter of Elijah
| Eggleston of Meriden, attempted an elope-
| ment with youth of about her age last week
but they had to give it up because no one
| would marry them.
| DROWNED.
| Michael Walsh of 38 South street, Hart
ford, left his home early Saturday morning,
| and an hour later his clothing was found
lying on the bank of the Connecticut river.
| His family thinks he has been drowned.
They are very poor and have offered reward
of S. for the recovery of the body.
| SECOND ADvENT1sTs.
Nine converts were baptized by the Sec
ond Adventists Saturday in the Connecticut
river at Tylerville and three on Friday. The
five years lease which the association holds
of the grove in Tylerville expires next year,
| and the association has purchased the adj
joining grove on the south side of the present
| site.
| FIRE WATER.
Several members of the First regiment got
| into trouble through overindulgence in
| liquor at Camp Lounsbury. A corporal of
| the Germania Guard had his stripes taken off
for intoxication, and one of the Hillyers who
| cut open the rear of a tent and stole key of
| beer is likely to be court-martialed and dis
| missed from the service.
GRANDSON OF DR.. HALVES.
A son of DR.. Van Lenney, the missionary,
frat he oyo1xy 6o7r pI1Na of
Rev. DR.. Halves of Hartford has taken up
musical career and has chosen London as his
i field of labor as director and composer. He
is now visiting his friends in Great Barring
ton, Mass; and this evening he gives con-
| cert in Norfolk, Conn.,, assisted by Miss Bee
1 man of Hartford and Mrs. Peck of Boston.
| Norfolk is thus put in the enjoyment of a
1 special treat, to the great advantage of Hart
| ford people spending the summer there.
| A TREE ToAD's UNEXPECTED APPEARANCE AND
SAD FATE.
The Danbury News says: George Jones,
| the Brook6eld antiquarian sat at the table
| last Tuesday taking some refreshment at
late hour. A heavy shower was raging at
| the time, the thunder rattling and the light
ming playing wildly. Beneath the window
| sill katydid was chirping its weird notes,
| and the elements and the surroundings all
aided in giving the strange sight a supersti-
tious setting. MIR. Jones CHANGED to cast his
| eyes on a teacup which stood on the table in
| front of him, and then, to his utter amaze
1 ment, he espied a tree toad climbing up the
side of the cup. Mr.. Jones is at a loss to
account for the manner in which the toad
got there. But there he was a genuine tree
toad. He helped to make the occasion as
phenomenal as possible by giving one of his
peculiar notes. His toadship will occupy
mounted position in Mr.. Jones' cabinet"
THE LATE JOHN W. sToRRs.
John W. Storrs of Birmingham, veteran
| among newspaper men in Connecticut who
/ died Sunday forenoon, was born in Wood
bridge, February 9, 1924, and was therefore
| in his Gath year. His boyhood was passed
in Oxford. and when he became of age he
learned the shoemakers trade in Seymour.
The work was distasteful to him, however,
| and he followed the occupation only a short
while. In 1946 he was appointed postmaster
| in Seymour (then Humphreysville) and Pres
ident Franklin Pierce appointed his sue
| cessor.
Mr.. Storrs' newspaper life began when
shortly after he established the Seymour In
dependent. The paper existed only two
years. Thirty-fve years ago he removed to
| Birmingham and was for time in the hotel
business, supplementing that by opening
photograph gallery. He did not refrain from
newspaper work, however, and besides doing
editorial work on the local paper he was a
| correspondent for one or other of the New
J
| position on the Sentinel of Ansonia and was
| connected with that paper to the time of
his death. He was member Of the Con-
| necticut Press association and attended the
summer meeting at Black Rock on July A.
Mr.. Storrs was best known perhaps as a
writer of verse and no local celebration of
| recent years was complete without the reci-
| tation of poem prepared by him for the
| occasion. He had recently been collating
| these poems with the intention of having
| them printed in book form and this work
will probably be completed by others.
The funeral will be attended this Tuesday,
| afternoon at 1870 from the Congregational
church in Birmingham.
FIXED UP IN SHAPE BY THE FIRE BOYS.
The Willimantic correspondent of the
Hartford Courant says: The Alert hose COM
pany of Willimantio have fitted up their
rooms in the new engine house on Bank
street in fine style. The furniture is of ma
hogany frame and trimmed with plush and
| includes several easy chairs and tete-a-tete.
There is also a beautiful writing desk and
mahogany center table. The rich Brussels
carpets, Smyrna rugs and elegant drapery
adjoining the central arched window, as well
as the furniture, are from ]. G. Lincoln's es-
tablishment and are all of exquisite taste and
design and cost nearly $780, Statuary de-
signs from D. o. Barrows ornament the
corners of the parlor. Among the pictures
adjoining the walls ia one representing
members of the company, in the center
of which is a photograph of the build
ing. Another picture represents Chief Dan
iels and his aids. These are enclosed with a
heevy gilt frame, as is also testimonial of
regard from the Lorenzo Blackstone Hose
company No. of Norwich, in recognition of
the kind reception given them by the Alerts
on the occasion of the annual parade October
10, 1885. There is a fireplace adorned with
handsome andirons. Over this is a large
mirror 5x6 feet, beveled-edged French plate
glass, inclosed in a rich walnut frame. The
six-lighted chandelier from the Willimantic
Gas company is one of the richest designs to
be found in this place. The room designed
for business meetings is very appropriately
furnished with everything for comfort.
In the same building are the rooms of the
Excelsior Hook and Ladder company,
handsomely furnished with costly furniture
from M. Tilden's establishment. The Bige-
low brussels carpet and brecatine Partisan
drapery are from II. G. Murray's, as also the
Smyrna rugs. The chandelier is the same as
the Alerts'. Among the elegant engravings
is testimonial of regard from Wauregan
Hook and Ladder company of Norwich. The
furnishing of these rooms was wholly by
local dealers. These two companies may be
justified in feeling degree of pride in their
elegant business and reception rooms, and
are to be heartily congratulated upon their
success. The Alerts expect to formally open
their rooms on or about the first of Septem-
Der.
Golden at morning, silver at noon, lead
at night" is the old saying about eating or
anges But there is something that is rightly